Personal Development
In our "Talents on the Move" series, we introduce you to former and current Swisscom talents who have benefited from our internal talent programme "SCALE". In a year-long learning journey and beyond, our SCALE participants develop both personally and professionally. Today we report on Kevin Schmid, who made the step from Product Owner to Release Train Engineer. Enjoy reading!
My Agile journey at Swisscom began years ago. I started as a Scrum Master and then worked as a Product Owner for several years. During the time when I continued to develop and manage a product in the role of PO, I realised that my passion lay in the area of "servant leadership". My network drew my attention to this position and after several interviews, I consider myself lucky to be part of this interesting organisation and, together with the teams, to make a significant contribution to the digitalisation of many applications.
The speed of the zCMDB (Central Configuration Management Data Base) teams is extremely high. Jumping on this fast-moving bandwagon was definitely a challenge. In addition, I was not only able to get to know the colleagues and topics in zCMDB, but also many peripheral systems. As a central database, we have many dependencies on other Agile Release Trains (ARTs), so handling these dependencies is also a challenge.
It is an incredible pleasure to be able to work with all the motivated colleagues and to learn from them.
In one of the first conversations (without me having mentioned anything about SCALE beforehand), I was told "We would be happy to give a SCALER this opportunity". SCALE helped me to get to know myself better and this was one of the things that motivated me to make this "move". In the SCALE network, I was able to get to know some people who have already completed a similar role or a similar move. I was able to benefit not only from my colleagues, but also from talent management through counselling/coaching.
I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you.
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